Quotes About Interdependence

People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed.

One hand has surely worked throughout the universe.

Let it also be borne in mind how infinitely complex and close-fitting are the mutual relations of all organic beings to each other and to their physical conditions of life; and consequently what infinitely varied diversities of structure might be of use to each being under changing conditions of life.

the structure of every organic being is related, in the most essential yet often hidden manner, to that of all the other organic beings ...

We here see in two distant countries a similar relation between plants and insects of the same families, though the species of both are different. When man is the agent in introducing into a country a new species this relation is often broken:

What natural selection cannot do, is to modify the structure of one species, without giving it any advantage, for the good of another species; and though statements to this effect may be found in works of natural history, I cannot find one case which will bear investigation.

It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us.

pero la selección natural no puede modificar la estructura de una especie, sin darle ninguna ventaja, para provecho de otra especie;

Hence it is quite credible that the presence of a feline animal in large numbers in a district might determine, through the intervention first of mice and then of bees, the frequency of certain flowers in that district!

We all give meaning to each other's lives. As long as we live.

she was clinging ivy, she needed people to hold her up.

In relationship there are always two types of person: one weaker and the other stronger one. It's never easier to live being as weaker one!

Even after most cultures established monetary economies, day-to-day transactions within close-knit social groups, from families to tribes, was still mostly without price. The currencies of generosity, trust, goodwill, reputation, and equitable exchange still dominate the goods and services of the family, the neighborhood, and even within the workplace. In general, no cash is required among friends.

The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.

Humankind is getting more and more connected.

You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.

My family has always been very close. Ever since I was a kid, everybody was always together, including my grandma. In the mornings, my mom would work, and my grandma would help me get ready and would walk me to school. We were all so close to her.

Identity of interests is the surest of bonds whether between states or individuals.

sort of worked, our arrangement. Before I couldna seen the sense in it. But two of us getting meat and wood, two of us keeping a look out, it was more efficient that one bloke faffing about on his own. And it wasn't we had anything in common exactly but we was another human to talk to.

If you can't tell him, can you at least tell me? Wutroow asked. I especially can't tell you, Ar'alani said, giving her a wry smile. Your brain is the one I rely on to make sure mine is functioning properly.

Whenever people grow close… a heart is born between them. It isn't inside our bodies. Whenever we care about something… whenever we care about another person… a heart is born. If you were alone in the world…I don't think you could have a heart.

Hold on! Ichigo! Listen…I don't know what you're going through, but…stop worrying about me. I'm not one of your classmates! I'm a grownup! I'm too old to have a kid like you worrying about me! So if something happened you better tell me! Kids… are allowed to rely on adults!

But if they could live without each other, and do better without each other, then this could not be true and must never have been true. They did not need each other. There was no particular reason for them to be together. Then what was it all about? They were dragging each other down like two people who couldn't swim. If they were lucky, they might keep at it long enough to grow old in the same house.

we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.